Posted on 04/05/2014 10:37:31 PM PDT by American Dream 246
I've read all threads about Mozilla melt down and all suggestions to replace Firefox but everybody seems to have a different opinion. So what is the best alternative to Firefox? Hopefully some of you guys will agree on one browser. I switched to Opera and I like it but just want to make sure. What about Seamonkey? Security etc..? Thank you for your time :-)
I will do that also. Thanks :-)
Now - Palemoon has the search with Duck Duck go as the main search. No Google. I have Bing as my homepage because I love their daily superb images. Is duck duck a good safe search?
Is Palemoon Windows only?
I don’t see any Linux support. :(
Is Palemoon ok on Mac?
Early last year, Opera ditched their home-grown rendering engine, Presto, in favor of Apple's WebKit, which powers Safari and is also used by Google Chrome.
Subsequently, Google announced they were forking WebKit to build a new rendering engine named Blink, to be used in new versions of Chrome. And it appears Opera is also going the Blink route.
I got Pale Moon tonight and it’s wonderful. So much faster. It’s basically FF, so there’s not a big adjustment. I also got an ad on that allowed me to transfer all of my bookmarks from FF in less than a minute.
Love it too :-)
I just had activate adblock plus.
http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4016
Why was the default search changed to DuckDuckGo?
Since several people have asked this question, and I expect more people will, I’ll highlight the most important reasons for changing the default search engine to DuckDuckGo in Pale Moon 24.4 and later:
Unbiased search results: With the previous default search provider (Google), the results of your search would be biased based on who you are: your geographical location, your search history (yes, Google keeps a history of everything you ever searched for), ads you have clicked on and tracked sites you have visited. Although it’s marketed as “providing you with more relevant results” I think this kind of bias is bad. It will show you more of the same stuff you already like and know and have searched for before. If you use a search engine, how often do you want to look up the same thing or want to be given the same kind of results? It would be the bane for any actual research you are doing.
No profiling: As said above, Google keeps a history of your search results. Don’t believe me? go have a look yourself here: https://history.google.com/history/
This kind of recorded history helps Google with building user profiles, which in turn can be used commercially. Based on your past results you may even be shown completely different providers for goods and services (in different price brackets) because you fall in a certain group of people, for example. Not to mention that aggregated data from user searches can also be sold to interested parties. And I think most people didn’t even know this kind of (very personal!) data was being collected.
Privacy-aware search provider: DuckDuckGo is privacy-aware. They make efforts to not track you and not store any sort of data (well they do, briefly, for normal search engine operations, but it’s being immediately thrown away when no longer needed). While there are other, similar search providers with the same privacy goals, I’ve chosen (a while back already) to include DuckDuckGo in Pale Moon for providing a current-day, complete package with relevant results based on proven technology.
If I could not use Ad-blocker, it would mean the end of web browsing for me. Despise ads just that much. Why I cannot watch live TV either.
I use Pale Moon and IXQuick for search. I’m not sure if Pale Moon shows up as Fire Fox or not. Kinda useless if you go to a site and they see you using Fire Fox instead of Pale Moon while you’re using Pale Moon as a protest against FF. Pale Moon is just Fire Fox with a different skin. It has been cut down to make it faster.
“Waterfox is a web browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. Waterfox is specifically for 64-bit Windows systems and according to the Waterfox project it is primarily designed to run quickly.”
http://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Just found this new “cloud based” browser, MAXTHON, that’s supposed to be quite fast and synchronized across devices (computer, tablet, phone).
I’m in the process of trying it out.
Both Sea Monkey and pale Moon are by Mozilla. If you are boycotting Mozilla, it looks like IE or Chrome is it unless Opera works for you.
See: ixquick.com for a search engine that says they protect privacy
Another alternate browser list: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/five-apps/five-free-alternative-web-browsers-for-windows/
That site says that “Maxthon” was developed in mainland China..
I am looking at “Avant”: http://www.avantbrowser.com/default.aspx?uil=en-us I need a browser that will work w/Adobe 9 to save certain files as “.pdf”...Firefox was working for me, IE & Chrome not so much.
Installed Palemoon.....can’t tell the difference between Palemoon and Firefox! It looks identical!
Heh!
Told ya.
;-)
Pale Mooon is produced by a Swedish developer using a fork of the Mozilla code base for FireFox, so Pale Moon is a fork derivative and not a Mozilla product.
I use Dolphin on my tablet ... and Epic on my laptop ... Epic is Chrome without the privacy issues! I would use Chrome on my tablet because of anonymous tab ability ... but they don’t have a way to shutdown out of control tabs! Dolphin Zero has absolute privacy if you want that ... and is free!
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